Seminar Questions

• Why were African children the focus of so much humanitarian interest?
  
• How did anxieties shape medical humanitarian interventions?

Required Readings

• Michael Jennings, ‘“A Matter of Vital Importance”: The Place of Medical Mission in Maternal and Child Healthcare in Tanganyika, 1919-39’, in David Hardiman, Healing Bodies, Saving Souls: Medical Missions in Asia and Africa (New York, 2006), pp. 227-50. (e-book)
  
• Nancy Rose Hunt, “‘Le Bebe en Brousse’: European Women, African Birth Spacing and Colonial Intervention in Breast Feeding in the Belgian Congo,” The International Journal of African Historical Studies, 21.3 (1988), pp. 401-432.
• Dominique Marshall, “Children’s Right and Imperial Political Cultures: Missionary and Humanitarian Contributions to the Conference on the African Child of 1931,” International Journal of Children’s Rights 12 (2004): 273-318.

Further Reading

• Jennifer Beinart, “Darkly through a Lens,” in In the Name of the Child: Health and Welfare, 1880-1940, ed. Roger Cooter (London: Routledge, 1992).